Green Zone couples up superstar actor Matt Damon with his Bourne-director Paul Greengrass. This time they are in Iraq, and Damon plays a quite regular Chief Warrant Officer. This is an attempt to make a political thriller based on a side of the Iraq war. They are walking in the footsteps of these kind of thrillers formerly measured up by Tom Clancy, and they can't touch Clancy on how to balance it out to make it work.
Damon's character doesn't ever manage to come across as believable, the supreme power political game is quite uninteresting, mostly because it's what the rest of the world have been saying really happened by US all along and while the movie tries to come across as grey painting the picture with different strokes, they never really achieve it.
Sorry Damon and Greengrass. Leave this kind of politically inspired thrillers to masters of the genre. Novel author Rajiv Chandrasekaran and screenplay author Brian Helgeland doesn't seem to fit that bill.
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